Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Season 7

37 episodes · Sep 13, 1957

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  • S7E1

    Three Dollar Bill

    Sep 13, 1957

    Eddie Martin is making lots of money at his job, and he's happy. Not so his wife, who thinks Eddie should work behind a desk and wear a gray-flannel suit. In an effort to help her husband get ahead, she throws a dinner party for the boss.

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  • S7E2

    One Way Out

    Sep 20, 1957

    A man serving a long sentence finds his only ticket out is through parole and good behavior.

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  • S7E3

    Smarty

    Oct 11, 1957

    On a boat headed for Panama, a brash, overdressed girl tries desperately to make friends with other passengers. But her outlandish appearance and loud voice make her an object of ridicule.

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  • S7E4

    High Barrier

    Oct 18, 1957

    A wealthy, domineering wife schemes her husband's death.

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  • S7E5

    Bitter Parting

    Oct 25, 1957

    After Prof. Rhys Lorenz is blinded in an accident, he becomes bitter at the world.

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  • S7E6

    Dual Control

    Nov 1, 1957

    An American flier's plane crashes in the Chinese jungle. A lovely Eurasian girl joins the flier in an attempt to escape the Communists.

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  • S7E7

    The Hole Card

    Nov 8, 1957

    A widow with a gambling problem owes everyone money, including the landlord who's wanting to evict her. She desperately wants to buy a pricey birthday gift for for her young son, who lives with disapproving relatives. If only she could have a little luck.

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  • S7E8

    The Lonely Wizard

    Nov 15, 1957

    The true story of electrical engineer Charles Steinmetz. Even as a child in Germany, Charles was lonely, preferring to devise inventions rather than play with other children. As he grows to young manhood, Steinmetz applies his brilliant mind to problems of electrical engineering.

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  • S7E9

    No Second Helping

    Nov 22, 1957

    A wife finds a letter in the pocket of her suave husband and learns he's been seeing a young woman. She suspects he's been cheating, but he says she's the daughter of a friend and simply reminds him of his youth. The wife decides to get to the bottom of it all by having the "chick" join them for dinner.

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  • S7E10

    Outlaw's Boots

    Nov 29, 1957

    A reformed outlaw has trouble going straight.

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  • S7E11

    Neighbors

    Dec 6, 1957

    A home-loving man's marriage has become a dull routine until he becomes interested in a young widow who moves next door.

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  • S7E12

    French Provincial

    Dec 13, 1957

    In Paris, columnist Mary Andrews runs into an old friend, Dutch Morgan. She agrees to play the role of Dutch's wife, from whom he's separated, when he visits a family that helped him when he was shot down in World War 2.

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  • S7E13

    Rich Man, Poor Man

    Dec 20, 1957

    A humble peasant is simple and naive - until he illegally sells a horde of antique statuettes to an unscrupulous dealer. The new found wealth complicates his life and nearly destroys his marriage.

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  • S7E14

    Pattern for Death

    Dec 27, 1957

    Bill Carter suspects that his present wife is still in love with her first husband. He allows his jealousy to threaten his marriage and ruin his life.

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  • S7E15

    Guys Like O'Malley

    Jan 10, 1958

    Battle-hardened Sgt. O'Malley dedicates himself to the task of making a seasoned soldier out of an irresponsible private.

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  • S7E16

    Home Again

    Jan 17, 1958

    A trio of jewel thieves, two men and a woman, take refuge from the police in a small town where the girl was raised. Tension mounts as the three strive to remain undetected while their attitude toward each other begins to change.

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  • S7E17

    No Boat for Four Months

    Jan 31, 1958

    Arriving on the lonely French Island of Tuamotu in the South Pacific in the late summer of 1939, an Army doctor discovers his medical school classmate and finds that he must help him conquer his addiction to morphine.

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  • S7E18

    Heroes Never Group Up

    Feb 7, 1958

    After he is presented with a citation for saving a child's life, Frankie Nevada is impressed with his role of hero. When he becomes more concerned with his press clippings than with finding a job, his girlfriend as well as his friends turn against him.

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  • S7E19

    East of the Moon

    Feb 14, 1958

    A trip to Japan by a businessman becomes a complicated love affair when his boss asks him to visit his Japanese wife and child whom he had left behind.

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  • S7E20

    Man on a Rack

    Feb 21, 1958

    A clothing salesman lets a lady friend talk him out of using his customary high-pressure sales techniques. But his sales drop, and the boss is forced to take him off the road.

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  • S7E21

    Two Lives Have I

    Feb 28, 1958

    After years as a hen-pecked husband, Hully Brown decides to leave his overbearing wife and make a new life for himself.

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  • S7E22

    Night of the Stranger

    Mar 7, 1958

    A psychiatrist takes refuge in the home of a stranger when one of her patients tries to run over her with his car. (He didn't take the news that he was going to be committed very well.) After stalking the house and terrorizing the pair for hours, the patient finally leaves. The doctor and homeowner attempt to escape, but the deranged man returns, more desperate than before to break into the house.

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  • S7E23

    The Honor System

    Mar 14, 1958

    An ex-con tries to force his son's acceptance to an elite college by attempting to blackmail the man who must approve the entrants.

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  • S7E24

    Bluebeard's Seventh Wife

    Mar 21, 1958

    A disappointed suitor is accused of playing cop when he voices doubts about a former girlfriend's choice of a husband.

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  • S7E25

    I Shot a Prowler

    Mar 28, 1958

    While her husband is away on a business trip, a lonely housewife becomes infatuated with another man. When he threatens her with exposure unless she gives him a large sum of money, she searches frantically for a solution to her problem.

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  • S7E26

    Papa Said No

    Apr 4, 1958

    Photographer Calvin is interested in pretty Suzanne only as a model, but she thinks of Calvin as a prospective husband. Only when Suzanne's irate father visits the studio does Calvin realize her intentions.

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  • S7E27

    Secrets of the Old Bailey

    Apr 11, 1958

    A Detective Superintendent of Scotland Yard is assigned the task of solving a baffling murder of an attractive London model

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  • S7E28

    A Contest of Ladies

    Apr 18, 1958

    A British movie star finds himself in a miserable situation: All he wants to do is rest, but he's forced to judge a beauty contest, and the participants don't give him a moment's peace.

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  • S7E29

    The Kind Mr. Smith

    Apr 25, 1958

    A poor Frenchman (Vincent Price) is mistaken upon his arrival in England for another man from France expected to arrive at that time. He is brought to the home of Mr. Smith, an apparently wealthy art connoisseur, and his lovely daughter (Valerie French). He soon finds out that both Mr. Smith and the expected Frenchman (Jonathan Harris) are involved in a scheme to sell a fake Corot painting.

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  • S7E30

    Penny Wise

    May 2, 1958

    A poor working girl fears she will not be accepted by her husband's socially prominent family. On her way to a first meeting with her in-laws, she has a series of wacky daydreams about them.

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  • S7E31

    The Town That Slept With the Lights On

    May 16, 1958

    A New York City reporter arrives in a small town where two recent murders have the locals terrified. Vigilantes have decided that a man from the wrong side of the tracks is the killer. The police chief, however, believes there's a big secret in the town that points to the guilty party.

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  • S7E32

    Lottery for Revenge

    May 30, 1958

    Revolutionists under the heel of a dictator are aided by an American newsman who becomes involved and lends a hand to help make the revolution a success.

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  • S7E33

    Way of the West

    Jun 6, 1958

    Dr. John Carter, a rather starchy young physician from Boston, is on his way to San Francisco. When a frontier town is stricken by a smallpox epidemic, the doctor reluctantly joins forces with the lawless Belle Starr to rush aid to the stricken people.

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  • S7E34

    Long Distance

    Jun 13, 1958

    A wife tries to make a last-ditch phone call to save her husband from the electric chair.

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  • S7E35

    You'll Have to Die Now

    Jun 20, 1958

    A young man follows his father's footsteps and becomes a police officer. He learns that one of his Dad's old buddies who's still of the force is on the make. The rookie offers the lieutenant a chance to "go straight" if he'll help him get evidence against the mob. That's when he learns that it could be deadly to expose the corruption.

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  • S7E36

    Curfew at Midnight

    Jun 27, 1958

    George Slattery is being ridden hard by his parole officer since getting out of jail for murder. He's fallen for a nice woman in the neighborhood, but a small-time gangster thinks she belongs with him. The constant harassment by the thug and his goons is testing George's ability to keep his fists in check and himself out of prison.

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  • S7E37

    False Alarm

    Aug 15, 1958

    A honest cab driver who has fallen on hard times joins a gang planning to commit an armored car robbery.

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